"So, why isn't he remembered in the same way as Saville, Garrett, and Hipgnosis? Bubbles signed almost none of his work - and, when he did, he utilized an arsenal of assumed identities, each equally absurd and non-sensical." Ian Lynam on iconic UK album designer Barney Bubbles.
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"Six years ago last week I wrote my first Movie Poster of the Week post for MUBI, then known as The Auteurs. Since then I have written over 270 articles on all facets of movie posters from the sublime to the ridiculous and I decided it was high time I organized them. What started as a fun browse has turned into an important resource. Congrats to Adrian Curry.
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Local note: Our pals Liz and Jamiel at Tandem Felix Letterpress have opened their "Curiosity Shop" and are hosting an opening party tonight from 6-10pm as part of the Pilsen Art Walk. (They're on the third floor at Lacuna Lofts.)
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"It's taken too long for Tracey Emin and Henry Miller to find each other. The artist has provided cover artwork for the new Penguin Modern Classics editions of Miller's novels Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn." —Jessa Crispin.
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"The movies whose posters I analyzed cover a good range of genres. Perhaps the colors say less about how movie posters' colors as a whole and color trends, than they do about how genres of movies have evolved." Vijay Pandurangan on colours in movie posters since 1914.
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When Art Rocked, a psychedelic poster show at SFO's International Terminal.
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The Science Fiction Star Chart "is based on the night sky above Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris on September 1st, 1902 following the first screening of Georges Melies' Le Voyage dans la Lune."jc-07.07.14

Related to an earlier post, if you like your vintage paperback covers served up with a healthy dose of funny, snarky commentary, Rex Parker's fabulous Pop Sensation is for you.
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"This is a little spot where I'm saving some beautiful IBM work I come across in the form of hi-res posters." Good Design is Good Business. I'll say.
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"Perfect for a galactic butcher shop far, far away, the Tauntaun Cuts print highlights the choicest cuts of meat inside the furry snow-romping creature which, though they smell bad on the outside, are delicious on the inside."
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"For a few brief decades of human history, just before combustion engines and motorcycles and cars burst onto the scene, the bicycle was the most advanced personal land vehicle around. They were wonders of technology and personal style—as these beautiful ads show."
dw-05.09.14

"In support of Neymar and Dani Alves for their stance against continued racism, here is a poster encouraging all World Cup teams and their fans to say no to racism in football." warholallmonkeys. Thanks Stephen ONeill.
jc-05.02.14

"These cats worked on big art tables and had all the tools to make these flyers by hand including those rub-on Letters, wax machines, Exacto knives, graph paper and many other tools that are extinct today in the modern artwork world." Orignal
Hip-Hop Party Flyers by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2.
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"Recently many of our friends and family have moved to Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris, Berlin and many other cities all over the world looking for work. We are lucky enough to have been able to visit, sample their signature drinks and be inspired by their new homes." City Screenprints.
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"...There are few pleasures better known to a film fan than walking past a perfectly conceived one-sheet on your way into the theater, that single image as hype-worthy as any two-minute trailer." What Kyle Buchanan learned from 2013 movie posters.
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"...dream-like Chagall-esque visuals hinting at the erotic and the grotesque, a rich, autumnal color palette and exquisite hand-lettering." Adrian Curry on the movie posters of Eva Svankmajerova.
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"Well, the publication of this book was a clarion call to myself, that perhaps what I am is what it says I am on my business card." Peter Mendelsund previews his new books, Cover and What We See When We Read, both due in the new year. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Design Monograph. Preordered x 2.
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Uni Watch on the career of designer Stevens Wright who was responsible for the iconic Buffalo Bills' logo and lots of other NFL ideas.
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"Kellar was Harry Kellar (1849-1922), a popular American magician blessed with some talented poster designers who stripped away the superfluous text to concentrate on his name and the recurrent motif of a red devil." —John Coulthart.
jc-09.17.13

We tell anyone who will listen that Kelli Anderson is the bomb. Take a peek at what she has been working on this summer and you'll see how right we are. Book Covers, Re-imagined in Paper. Kaboom.
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"Imagine a time and a place where normal marketing methods didn't dictate process, where the goal of making a poster was to reach an audience who were actually interested in film." The Beautiful Movie Posters of Post-War Germany, an illustrated post by Brandon Schaefer.
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"...qualities of lightness and informality happened to make the postcard an ideal medium for a certain stripe of visual artist in the 1970s and 1980s." Recto Verso on the postcard collection of Ulises Carrión.
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"Whether salvaging shipping pallets for a homemade humidor or abandoning the city for a life of surprisingly difficult rural subsistence farming, this homespun palette proudly weathers the storms of impulsive life choices." Mantone Color Forecast 2013. Via This Isn't Happiness.
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"He had worked hard on his cover and it wasn't fair to sweep the contest aside. He was right, and I was wrong. He sent me a copy of the cover design he sent, and if you ask me, it was quite a winner." Agreed. Adam Busby's cover design for The Hobbit.jc-02.04.13

"...large-scale historic murals originally displayed at the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair in celebration of the state's centennial." Presented and annotated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Via Andrew Abb.
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"Bass's Vertigo designs are so firmly associated with the film and with its director Alfred Hitchcock that it comes as a surprise to realize that Vertigo was the only poster that Bass designed for the director."
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Twosweet print ads for VW from DDB Paris as an homage to the classic Bernbach campaign. Found in the excellent Adland archives.
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"Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera." Designed and annotated by Kind Company, this an excellent resource and will be a major drain on your productivity today.
jc-06.12.12

Related to the last. DKNG Studios 2011 Moog Art Print as seen with the lights on and off. I really shouldn't feel bad that I missed this since I didn't even know it existed until well after it was sold out. But I do. Great work.
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"Inspired by the 2009 Iran election protest and activism and censorship therein, the WWIII Propaganda Posters were conceived as a mostly playful statement on wartime, citizen journalism, censorship, and how they all play with the advent of the Internet. Brian Moore's WWIII Posters. Via The Khool.
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"There wasn't a direct reference to one artist in particular, although any suggestion that the work is reminiscent of that of Edward McKnight Kauffer is a huge compliment." Creative Review chats with illustrator Chris Gray and DDB NY about the beautiful new Hertz poster campaign.
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There's one of these wrapped up on a pallet next to our loading dock. We'd steal it, but it'd be like stealing a particle accelerator; we couldn't hide it and we'd never figure out how it works anyway.
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"A series of posters inspired by Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. There is one poster for each track on the album. Colour palette is inspired by the original iconic Hipgnosis album artwork."
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"Doodling is a gateway to illustration." Fun PSA-esque posters for an art school.
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"Because they were printed in limited quantities it was rare for any of them to survive. But the artist who painted these, Harold Seroy, had saved at least eight of them, all painted in 1933 and 1934." Movie Poster of the Week and Harold Seroy. Great find.
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"The poster emphasizes Erik Spiekermann and his typeface FF Meta... looking through either one of the coloured glasses the attendee can read the poster in English or German." Smart work from Pawel Rokicki for an ADCC student competition.
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Peter Mendelsund on summing up Nabakov's Lolita in a single image. An insightful, illustrated essay on design and literature that is to be "the first in some promised posts about the process of jacketing works of fiction." That is very good news.
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Related to the last. "The official swatch of desert tan is housed in Franconia, Va., just outside Washington's beltway, in a warehouse filled with the rest of the federal government's certified color chips." Americhrome, by Graham T. Beck. Required reading.
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"The Soviets and Nazis were not, in fact, more skilled than American branders." Steven Heller on Branding the Government.
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"By day, this glow-in-the-dark poster features a quaint city scene. But when the lights go out, a town full of crime, sex, guns and zombies (and a few extra hidden surprises) appears." Day and Night.
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This entry on duotones in 1960s and 70s movie posters is well illustrated, and starts with the iconic Rosemary's Baby poster designed by Bemis Balkind. From All My Eyes, a blog by Linda Eckstein, formerly Fortune's graphics editor.
jc-10.11.11

"A collection of art prints that not only feature, but is also driven by, the passion for cycling. As with cycling, speed is of the essence, so each piece of work is limited to 100 copies only."
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"Each poster will have information about the planet that sets one apart from the other, as well as historic discoveries of what would have been known in 1965. All of which is set in beautiful and modern typefaces of that era." Beyond Earth by Stephen Di Donato. Via Ace Jet 170.
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"The images featured a series of abstracted formats of print ephemera - formats that performed a function in one way or another." Tom Crabtree's sublime poster was created to accompany Process Journal Edition 3.
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"The 'Invitation to an Assassination' series examines how seemingly routine and casual occurrences can quickly become extraordinary events with a profound global impact the moment a powerful figure, whether it be a world leader or pop culture icon, is assassinated."
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Trexels is a limited edition print from John Martz and Koyama Press featuring 235 of your favorite Star Trek characters (give or take a few Tribbles) in pixelated form. Set your alarm for 4pm EST.
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Ryan Hageman's Gurafiku, "a collection of visual research that encompasses the history of Japanese graphic design."
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Jim Tierney designed covers for four Jules Verne novels as his senior Illustration thesis project at the University of the Arts" Then he made this swell video to show them to us. His blog is excellent too.
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"This map of Manhattan is broken down into neighborhoods, with a pattern for each area that is inspired by neighborhood-centric details, such as the water towers in Tribeca, the view of the sky between the buildings in the financial district, the ornament on the Dakota (where Lennon was shot) for the UWS, and the seating of the Apollo Theater for Harlem."
dw-06.22.10

CP's World Cup fever has been on hold thanks to the Blackhawks, but we love these 32 ESPN-commissioned posters. They're a perfect mix of folk-art style and attention to details of history, mythology, and rivalries. Thanks, p+pbb-06.08.10

The Type Directors Club asked a group of designers to find a classified/personal newspaper ad from their local community and to "hijack" it typographically. The results are
Beautifully Banal. Via Kottke.
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